Easy Performant Outline 3D is now available on assetstore!

Hi everyone! We are glad to introduce you our plugin which allows you to change the way your game looks.

We were working on the asset for one of our games, but decided to add it to asset store. It was designed to be as performant as possible while maintaining nice features as per object softness/edge thickness etc.

As it's the first release of the asset we hope to get feedback/bugreports.

Best regards.

Asset link:
http://u3d.as/1EXT

Examples:

Assetstore description:

Making outline has never been so easy! With outline you can easily improve your game look and feel creating unique selections/highlights ect. with ease. It works with simple or complex models and can be easily customized by changing parameters and setting.

How to use it:

Getting started with Easy Performant Outline 3D - in just minutes!! Simply start by adding a Outliner effect to your camera and Outliner component to objects you want to highlight and everything will work out of the box.

- Sample scene that shows examples
- Many options to tweak outline to your need

Features:

• 100% post process effect
• Fully customizable
• Highly optimized for mobiles
• Supports per object outline settings
• Supports per object color
• Supports multi layer outline

Documentation and example scenes inside package.

 

Hello guys!

We just submited new version 1.1 which added URP/LWRP support along with multiple bug fixes and performance improvements.

 

New update is pending review!

• Fixed issue with enabling HDR in URP turns renderer mostly black.
• Added support for previewing outline effect in edit window.

 

Fixed single pass instancing
Added post effects
Implemented outline alpha
Minor fixes and improvements

 

Hi, any tips for mobile optimization? By default settings it decreases performance a lot in URP 2019.4. I believe tweaking settings in render feature will help.

 

@alior

Does this support toggling outlines via collision triggers? For instance, an outline around a trash can only appears when Player is inside a trigger collider, then disables once Player has left trigger.

 

Ho there! Please check out new version. It should definitely improve performance. If you'll still get any issue please write to my email pirate.parrot.software@gmail.com and we will have a look. Sorry for delayed answer but I wasnt check the forum for a while.

 

Hi! Please write to my email: pirate.parrot.software@gmail.com I can make a script for you which will do this kind of behaviour.

 

Will do! Thank you for the reply.

 

Just picked this up. It's pretty cool.

 

Hi.I just purchased Easy Outline.

I was wondering what can be deleted safely because the size of the folder is more than 100mo.
Also I noticed there is a "legacy" package. Is it made for built in renderer?

Last question: Is it possible to add outlines to TextMeshPro?

Thanks and happy new year.

 

My folder is under 3 megs. I didn't import the Demo folder.

Edit: I also didn't import the legacy package, and it's working fine for me on built in renderer. I'll let the author answer that, but my guess is that legacy is just an older version.

 

Hi there! You can safely delete demo and legasy (it's really just archived version 1.0 for those who are using it on the project at the moment, but I think I'll remove it completely). It will not affect anything for you. Unfortunately due to the way UI renders it's impossible to apply EPO to the UI. Please let me know if you have further question.

 

Sorry for the dumb question, but how do I simply make the outline thicker? The images in the documentation show a thick/wide outline but I can't seem to change it.

 

Hello! Have done some experimentation on the performance of this asset, and I've noticed the drawcalls increase significantly if the asset is statically batched.

Looking in the inspector during runtime at a statically batched object, the Outlineable component seems to be adding 33 instances of the same MeshRenderer, for a GameObject only containing one MeshRenderer.

Is this something that can be avoided, or is it simply the nature of static batched objects? We use a lot of static objects in our project for lightmapping / performance considerations, so adding the Outline adds some significant overhead.

See attached screenshot of what I'm referring to:

 

3D demo scene is pure magenta on a fresh 2019.4.23 project. This is right after importing, not doing anything at all with SRPs.

 

Can you somehow exclude other meshes and render the outline always behind them?

 

Hey @alior , any idea how to make the effect be applied After Postprocessing? I tried modifying the next line in URPOutlineFeature.cs

outline.renderPassEvent = RenderPassEvent.AfterRenderingPostProcessing;

but looks like it's not working. Looking at this thread it looks like that specific RenderPassEvent is not supported in URP?

Cheers!

 

I have some issues with your Puggling. Every time I play my project, it takes a long time to run. It shows me the message: "Checking model for easy performance" and It takes around 20 minutes

 

Hello. Your assets are amazing. I am trying to achieve something with EPO. I want outline to be masked by only some layers. Is there a solution for that?

 

Hi @alior

I can not find any Outliner Settings in project, code or decumentation
Just one mention in inspector

Can you point me where can I found them?

 

The Outliner is a component attached to the scene camera. You can change the basic outline settings from there.

 

Hi is it possible to change properties like gap color, size, softness,.. by code in script ? (those are properties when you use Front Back renderer and use Basic/Interlaced)

 

my EPO show up in editor but it does not show up in build, example does not work to. I copied all the setting from my old project that works, but nothing change.

 

It don't show on android device neither on Webgl. Only on editor.
Any ideas?